Ep. 1344 - Member Of The ‘Party Of Science’ Doesn’t Know What The Moon Is
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A prominent congresswoman and former member of the House Science Committee revealed this week that she doesn t know what the moon is. And somehow that s not even the worst of it. Also, Joe Biden comes up with a new scheme to buy votes by forgiving student loans. Scotland s new hate crime law goes into effect, and already the system is overloaded with hate crime complaints. Plus, Ben Affleck s non-binary daughter debuts her new identity at her grandfather s funeral. All that and more on the Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a prominent congresswoman and former member of the House
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Science Committee revealed this week that she doesn't know what the moon is. And somehow that's
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not even the worst of it. Also, Joe Biden comes up with a new scheme to buy votes by forgiving
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student loans. Scotland's new hate crime law goes into effect and already the system is overloaded
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with hate crime complaints. Plus, Ben Affleck's non-binary daughter debuts her new identity
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at her grandfather's funeral. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You know, there's a lot we can say about our political leaders. Are they corrupt? Yes. Are
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they power-hungry? Yes. Are they a bunch of evil, soulless goblins? Yes. But what may be most
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significant, the trait that may have the most bearing on the future of our country, is that
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they are, by and large, also extremely stupid. I mean, there is little doubt that we are right
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now led by the dumbest collection of muddle-headed morons that has ever been assembled in our nation's
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capital or any nation's capital. It's difficult to overstate just how monstrously stupid these
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people are. And if you doubt that, then please consider this video of Democrat Representative
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Sheila Jackson Lee. And before I play the video, you should understand a few things about Sheila
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Jackson Lee. The first is that she is a former member of the Science Committee. The second is
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that she is also a former member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee. And the third is that she is,
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once again, a sitting member of Congress. And in that position, she gave an address on Monday to
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students from Booker T. Washington High School. And this address happened on the occasion of the
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eclipse. In fact, and this is not really the stupid part. Well, it's not the really stupid part,
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but it is a stupid part. She claims that she, as she put it on Twitter, created the opportunity
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for the students to see the eclipse. Lee tweeted, quote,
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Today I created the opportunity to see a unique science and solar experience for the students at
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Booker T. Washington High School. As a former member of the Science Committee and a former ranking
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member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee, this was an irreplaceable moment in history.
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There should be more opportunities to introduce science to our diverse and vulnerable communities.
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So many students came out to see history for themselves. Many remarked that this is the
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first time I've ever seen anything like this, and they made their way to the field.
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Despite over 90% of Booker T's students being economically disadvantaged, it has managed to
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build an enthusiastic environment where students are excited to explore the wonders of space and
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exploration. The hallmark of this excitement is anchored in opportunity. Now, there's enough in those
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few sentences alone to assess that Sheila Jackson Lee has approximately the IQ of a toothpick. For one
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thing, she's somehow taking credit for the eclipse. She seems to be suggesting that these young people
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would not have been able to look up at the sky and view this celestial event if not for her
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intervention. So by gathering, you know, with the kids and pointing at the sky and saying,
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hey, check it out, she is apparently creating the opportunity to look at the sky. Without her,
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they would never have thought to look at the sky. They wouldn't know how to look at the sky without
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her. Second, she seems to be, she seems to chide us for not giving more opportunities to diverse and
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vulnerable communities to view events like this. But she doesn't explain how we're supposed to create
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opportunities for diverse communities to see an eclipse in the sky during times when there is no eclipse in
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the sky. I mean, it only happens once every several years. What are we supposed to do about that? I guess
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we could invite diverse communities to come outside once a month and then, like, put our hands in front
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of their faces to sort of simulate the effect of an eclipse, but I'm not sure what that would achieve.
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Sheila Jackson Lee doesn't really elaborate. And third, as further evidence of her toothpick IQ,
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she says, the hallmark of this excitement is anchored in opportunity. Now, I want to be very clear,
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this statement means absolutely nothing. There is no way to make sense of that sentence.
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There is no meaning we can really glean from it. I think that maybe what she's trying to say
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is that the kids were excited for the opportunity to watch the eclipse,
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which Sheila Jackson Lee had somehow created by some unspecified means. But the phrase anchored
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in opportunity is at best clunky and unnecessarily wordy. And the phrase, the hallmark of this excitement
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is just incredibly dumb. And together they make kind of a dumb sandwich. In fact, Sheila Jackson Lee,
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we can tell from this alone, is the dumbest kind of dumb person. She's the exact inverse
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of the smartest kind of smart person. Because we know the smartest kind of smart person is somebody
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who understands complex topics, but talks about them in simple ways using simple words.
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And on the other end of that spectrum is the dumbest dumb person who tries to use unnecessarily
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big words to communicate simple ideas, but doesn't understand the words they're using. And so they
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don't manage to effectively convey even the simplest idea. So by all that evidence alone, we already know
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that Sheila Jackson Lee is a momentous moron. But it's about to get so much worse. At this event,
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before somehow in an unclear way providing kids the opportunity to look at the sky,
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she addressed the crowd of students and gave them a little lesson in astronomy.
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Unfortunately, though, she has an understanding of astronomy that is so garbled, confused, and
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delusional that my four-year-old daughter could easily fact check her. Here's what she said.
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And sometimes you've heard the word full moon. Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just
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to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases.
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And that's why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such
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that we could do that? The sun is a mighty powerful heat that is almost impossible to go near the sun.
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The moon is more manageable. And you will see in a moment, or not a moment, you'll see in a couple
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of years that NASA is going back to the moon. So this is a sitting congresswoman who has been a
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member of the science committee and the space committee saying that the moon is made up mostly
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of gases. And she then juxtaposes the moon with the sun, which she says has a mighty powerful heat,
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while the moon is, quote, more manageable. So she appears to believe not only that the moon is a
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gaseous entity, but also that it gives off its own light and heat. She very much appears to believe
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that the moon is basically a much dimmer, cooler version of the sun. So she thinks we have like
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the night sun and the day sun. And why is it darker at night? Because the night sun is dimmer.
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And I'm not exaggerating and trying to be funny here. That is really what she actually believes.
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And it is needless to say, hopefully needless to say, completely false. The moon is solid. Its surface
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is rocky. The light it gives off is the light it reflects from the sun. It does not create its own
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light. This is a very basic fact about our solar system that every child by first grade should
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understand. If my 10-year-old thought that the moon was made of gas, I would be concerned. If I heard my
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10-year-old say that, I'd say, what? You're 10. You think that? I would assume, well, I failed as a
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parent. It would be a disturbing level of ignorance for a 10-year-old, for a 74-year-old congresswoman.
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It is horrifying, not to mention baffling. I truly have no idea how you can live through seven and a
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half decades and never encounter even the most basic facts about the moon. I mean, this is like if a
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74-year-old woman declared that the Pacific Ocean is made of chocolate syrup. Okay, it's not just that
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the belief is wildly off base. It's that it would seem impossible to maintain such an outrageous
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misconception for that many years. Like, think about how many times that must have come up in
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conversation through the years to people who didn't correct you. Yet, that apparently is what
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has happened here. Later that day, Lee responded to the mockery over these comments. She said this,
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quote, obviously, I misspoke and meant to say the sun. But as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid
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things instead of stuff that really matters. What can I say, though? Foolish thinkers lust for stupidity.
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Now, look, once again, and I don't mean to get hung up on the minutia, but we have a statement here
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that makes no sense and means nothing. Foolish thinkers lust for stupidity. What? What is that?
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It sounds like the kind of thing you see on like a fortune cookie is because someone doesn't speak
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English thought it sounded profound. You know, something was lost in translation. What does that
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mean? It doesn't mean anything. She just she thinks it sounds insightful. So she said it because she is
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quite literally dumber than a grasshopper. And she claims that she was really talking about the sun,
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which is the worst excuse she could have possibly offered. If anybody on her team was at least
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slightly more intelligent than her, because that's the other thing, by the way, that you have to
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understand, like this stupidity, it's not just her. Her whole team, apparently, is this stupid. That's
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why they posted this video on her Twitter page. And no one thought that there's a problem here.
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So if anyone on her team was a little bit more intelligent, they would have suggested
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that she tried to claim that she was referring to the moon's atmosphere when she referenced
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its gases. Now, the moon does have a very thin atmosphere made up of helium, methane, and other
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gases. It would be a hell of a stretch to try to spin it that way. And obviously, it still wouldn't
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be true that the moon is made up of gases. But at least that would be a somewhat workable excuse,
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maybe. Instead, she comes up with the least plausible cover story she possibly can. So let's go back and
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see what her statement would sound like if you swap in the word sun for moon. It would be like this.
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A full sun is a complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases. The question is,
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how could we live on the sun? Are the gases such that we could do that? The sun is a mighty powerful
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heat. It's almost impossible to go near the sun. The sun is more manageable. And you will see in a
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moment, well, not a moment, but in a couple of years, that NASA is going back to the sun.
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To be clear, that's what she's claiming she meant to say. So the spin that this ignoramus came up with
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is that she didn't mean to say that stupid thing. She actually meant to say something even stupider.
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So now we have a choice. Either Sheila Jackson Lee thinks that the moon is made up of gases,
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or she thinks that we can live on the sun and that NASA in a couple of years will be visiting
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the sun, or rather going back to it because they've already visited once. So pick your poison.
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And keep in mind, what you just heard there was only a 45-second clip of remarks that went on for
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more than five minutes. And believe it or not, it actually gets worse. Watch.
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What you will see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years,
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which means that's why they will shut the light down, because they will be close to the Earth,
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which is an amazing experience. And what we are supposed to experience,
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Okay, now I can't be sure what exactly this lunatic is babbling about, but
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she seems to be confusing an eclipse with a supermoon. The latter occurs when a full moon coincides with
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the moon's closest approach to Earth, which is something that happens not once every 20 years,
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but a few times every year. And as for the statement that they will shut the light down,
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I honestly have no idea what that's even supposed to mean. Like, who is they? They? They will shut the
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light down? Does she think there are people living on the moon who manually control how much light comes
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from the sun? In my entire life, I've never heard anyone refer to the moon as a they.
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Like, what have you ever heard anyone point to the moon and go, oh, look at them?
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Does she think the moon is non-binary? We can't be sure. But she keeps going. Listen.
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The one impact I want you to have is how you are controlled by something outside of your human
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experience. That the solar system is bigger than us, though there are solar systems and there are
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systems that are smaller than the Earth. Still, we are in a solar system and we depend on the Earth,
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the moon and the sun. That is our existence. That is what creates our desire for creativity,
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our music, our weather, our rain, our snow, our cold, our heat. That's solar system working.
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The moon and sun create our music, she says. I mean, that's obviously asinine, but it's the
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closest thing she gets to resembling like a coherent thought. And the problem is that right
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before that, she claims that there are solar systems smaller than the Earth. That would mean
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that somewhere in the universe there is a star that together with its planets orbiting it is smaller than
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the Earth itself. And so small, in fact, that the orbit of the planets around it is no greater than
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the diameter of the Earth. Now, for the record, there is no evidence that anything like that exists
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anywhere in the universe, but it does exist in Sheila Jackson Lee's imagination, a place where the moon
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is not only made up of gases, but is also, of course, a planet. We have yet to know whether you can live on
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the moon, but I don't know about you. I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to
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survive on the moon. That's another planet, which you're going to see shortly.
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Yes, Sheila, I want you to be first in line, too. I very much want you to be first in line. Now,
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now it's probably a good time to tell you that this woman graduated from Yale. She is a Yale graduate,
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a prominent congresswoman, a former member of multiple science committees, yet she can't even
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bull her way through a five-minute presentation about the eclipse to a bunch of public school kids
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without diving headfirst into the most bizarre science fiction anyone has ever heard. This is like
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what would happen to me if I woke up one day and suddenly found myself standing in front of some
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sort of conference of mathematicians expected to give a presentation about calculus, except that I
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could probably get out at least one or two sentences before it becomes painfully obvious that I haven't
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the slightest clue what I'm talking about. And also, that's calculus. In Sheila Jackson Lee's case,
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she was asked to speak at a grade school level about the moon, and she couldn't do it.
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Now, fortunately, she did fact check herself during her remarks,
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checking with someone to make sure that her science was accurate. Watch.
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And Dr. Simmons, I didn't go too far away from the scientific explanation. Is that correct,
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She was near it. Yeah, she was about as near as the Earth is to Pluto, which, according to Sheila
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Jackson Lee, is probably about 14 and a half miles or so. And my only regret is that they didn't pan
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to Dr. Simmons to get her, I mean, to get her, you know, look being put on the spot there.
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You know, the moon is a gaseous entity, and inside it grows strawberries and unicorns.
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Dr. Simmons, I'm pretty close on the science, right? Not too far? Yeah, pretty close?
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Now, there's no reason to belabor the point any more than I already have. The point is that this
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woman quite literally could not pass a first grade science exam, and yet she is a member of the Party
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of Science and has been a prominent congresswoman in that party for 30 years. Unless you think that
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perhaps this woman has not always been this stupid, perhaps she's just another member of our ruling
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class who is suffering from dementia or some other form of brain damage. Consider that way back in
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1997, it was reported that this same congresswoman, then a member of the House Committee on Science,
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visited the Mars Pathfinder Operations Center in Pasadena, California, and asked, reportedly,
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whether the pathfinder on Mars had been able to find the flag planted there by Neil Armstrong.
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This question was not caught on camera. So after it was reported, Sheila Jackson Lee's office,
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of course, denied it, and also, of course, accused the journalist of racism. But now we know,
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all these years later, that believing we visited and planted a flag on Mars is actually the least
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idiotic misconception this woman has about our solar system. So we are ruled by morons, by people
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who should not be trusted to walk across the room holding a pair of scissors, people who probably
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have to wear Velcro shoes so they aren't caught on camera struggling to tie them. These are the people
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running the country. The good news is that maybe we can convince them to board a rocket ship and take
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a trip to visit the sun. I hear it's nice this time of year, and that would certainly solve a lot of
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unveiled a sweeping new plan Monday aimed at erasing or lowering student loan debt for more than 30
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million people. The second attempt to offer a widespread forgiveness after the Supreme Court blocked
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the administration's inaugural program last summer. The proposal would cancel up to $20,000 in interest for more
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than 25 million people who owe more than they originally borrowed, regardless of income. Those enrolled in
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the savings on a valuable education repayment plan and other income-driven repayment plans will be eligible to
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have the entire amount their balance has grown since entering repayment forgiven, including single borrowers
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earning $120,000 or less and married borrowers earning $240,000 or less. Debt would automatically be
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forgiven for eligible borrowers who have not applied for relief due to their paperwork requirements,
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bad advice, or other obstacles. So the Biden administration is trying this again as a way to
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buy votes as we head into the election. The key phrase here, I think, is regardless of income.
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So this is the clearest admission that we've seen yet, that the student loan forgiveness is welfare for
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the upper class, which of course is what it's always been. But when you hear regardless of income,
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they aren't even pretending that it's targeting disadvantaged people or whatever. This is being
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done for a group of people, college graduates, who earn more on average than most of the people who
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will be forced to foot this bill. Student loan forgiveness means that a car mechanic will have
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to chip in to pay off the loans of a heart surgeon, okay? And that's what it means. And it's just a moral
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abomination, obviously. But don't worry. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on with Stephen Colbert last
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night for whatever reason. And she says it's all worth it. You know, she says that having your money
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stolen and given to college graduates to pay off their loans that they took out and that you had
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nothing to do with, it's all good. Because it means that those college graduates can take more
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Are you one of the people who will benefit from this program?
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Now, I don't think I will be. Actually, I'm going to be one of the few that doesn't. I'm a member of
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Congress. I'm a little bit outside the threshold and bounds. But if I wasn't, you know, just a few
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years ago, waitress me five years ago would have benefited from it. Congresswoman me will not. But
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that's okay. I'll take the knock if it means that people can get relief. And, you know, this is huge.
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This is people getting the student loan forgiveness, their student loans canceled. It means
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that, you know, it's hope to buy a house or have a kid or travel abroad or maybe even go back to
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school and, you know, pursue a career that maybe they otherwise wouldn't have. I mean, one of the
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reasons that's not me now is because I didn't feel like I'd be able to afford medical school.
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And and so hopefully someone else who's at an ISEF competition somewhere will be able to do that
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because of this. So yeah, go back to school, go take out more loans. You just got your loans
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forgiven. So what should you do with that with that freedom? Go take on more loans. Well, I lost my
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loans. I might as well get some more. I lost my debt. Let me let me immediately go take on more
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debt. It's a great idea. Well, you know, I don't know about you, but I take solace in this. At least
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my money is being stolen so that college grads can travel abroad. That's comforting, isn't it? It's a
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very comforting thought. I feel good about that. So while you're struggling to feed your family and,
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you know, pay your mortgage and pay all kinds of debt that no one is going to forgive,
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just know that the food that's being taken out of your children's mouths is being taken so that
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somewhere out there, somewhere out there, a 27 year old gender studies major can take a life
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changing trip to the Cayman Islands. And that should really, right? I mean, when you're explaining to
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your kids, sorry, we can't afford new shoes, tax burden is too high, but don't worry. Think about
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all the vacations other people are taking. Real relief. And look, I say this and I always make these
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points whenever student loan forgiveness comes up. Um, and I say this, even though I don't dispute
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that a lot of these college grads are in a, are in a really tough spot. And I would even say an unfair
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spot in, in many, if not, not all, but in many cases, um, because there are plenty of college
00:24:18.920
graduates that are, that are, are deep in debt because of loans, uh, that were taken out because
00:24:25.620
of, because of, you know, agreements that they made when they were like 18 years old and had no
00:24:31.680
idea what they were doing. And it was all on a false promise and they were scammed. And I get all
00:24:37.900
that. I don't deny any of that. I think that's, I think that's absolutely true. But the problem is
00:24:43.980
always is that if you're in an unfair, if, if, if we, for the sake of argument would agree that it's
00:24:53.100
unfair that you have these loans that you did take out and you may, you didn't know what you were doing
00:24:59.060
maybe. And, and I, and I agree 18 years old, you know, make, making a financial commitment like that
00:25:04.920
it's absurd. Um, but even if we could agree that, yeah, well that, that sucks. That's unfair.
00:25:13.420
It's a lot less fair to make someone who didn't take the loan out, pay it back.
00:25:20.260
So if it's unfair that you have to pay it back as the person who took out the loan,
00:25:26.300
how would it be more fair for someone who didn't take it out to pay it back? That that's just,
00:25:31.580
that's heaping unfairness on top of unfairness. So that cannot be the solution. Um, even though
00:25:40.860
we acknowledge that the whole thing's a scam, the university system is a giant scam and these are
00:25:45.140
the suckers who fell for it. Uh, and I, you know, and I, and I feel for a lot of them, my objection is
00:25:51.180
to making taxpayers, making you and me who are not involved responsible, even though we're not
00:25:57.400
responsible, uh, making us pay the penalty for something we have nothing to do with.
00:26:03.180
Now, what we should do, you know, if we want to really make it right, what we should be talking
00:26:07.380
about as others have suggested, including a Will Chamberlain and others have, have talked about
00:26:11.640
this for years that, you know, if you want to talk about seizing the university endowments
00:26:15.640
and using those to pay off student loans, well, you know, now we're talking because many of these
00:26:21.320
universities are sitting on millions, in some cases, billions of dollars. These are extremely
00:26:27.860
wealthy institutions that have millions. And again, in some cases, billions of dollars.
00:26:34.840
And, uh, and these are the institutions running the scam.
00:26:40.320
Like, and so they should be forced to pay if that money has to come by force. If we have to go in by
00:26:46.760
force, which is what a student loan forgiveness plan does, you got to come in by force and take money
00:26:50.900
from somebody to pay off these loans. Why would you not take it from the universities? They're the,
00:26:55.760
it's, it's their fault. They're the ones running the, they are the scam artists. Why would they not
00:27:01.480
be the ones forced to pay it back? So that to me is obviously the right approach, which is why it
00:27:07.440
won't happen. Uh, it'll never happen. And, you know, very few of our political leaders would have
00:27:13.600
the guts to, to even propose something like that, uh, which means that it won't happen.
00:27:21.640
You know, now, now you, you could, if we lived in a sane country and we were having a conversation
00:27:26.480
like this, uh, now you could make the argument that, Hey, if we're going to go in and seize
00:27:32.380
the endowments and we're going to take, uh, we're going to go into these, these, these scam
00:27:36.920
institutions and take their money, that's exactly what should happen. Well, the money shouldn't go to
00:27:43.460
college graduates. It should go somewhere else. There's a lot of things we could force them to pay for.
00:27:48.800
Uh, and, and, you know, there's an argument there, but that, that's, that's a conversation
00:27:53.640
I would love to have. I'd love to have the conversation like, Hey, we're going in and
00:27:57.000
taking them. The, the, these scam artist institutions are going to pay because this
00:28:01.780
is insane that this has happened, that we've allowed them to bankrupt generations of Americans
00:28:06.040
with a worthless, a college education that, that only gets more and more worthless by the
00:28:12.200
day. You know, these institutions that exist at this point, many of them solely as, as, uh,
00:28:18.740
as vehicles of, of ideological indoctrination. They're not even interested in providing anything
00:28:25.360
resembling, you know, a worthwhile, real, well-rounded education. And this is, this has been
00:28:32.560
happening for decades now and, and, and they pay no price for it. It's crazy. So if we could all
00:28:37.860
agree on that and say, well, they're going to, they got to pay, but you know, we're taking all
00:28:43.700
this money. We're going to have billions of dollars. What do we want to do with it? That, that,
00:28:46.600
that's a good conversation. That's a conversation we should be having.
00:28:48.560
All right. Daily Mail has this report says, uh, Scotland's police force has solved fewer
00:28:54.940
shoplifting theft and assault crimes in recent years. Figures suggest as frontline representatives
00:28:59.640
say officers are being overwhelmed by reports made under the country's new hate crime law.
00:29:04.840
David Threadgold, chairman of the Scottish police Federation says police Scotland's vow to investigate
00:29:10.360
every report of hate crime has created a simply unmanageable situation with around 8,000 filed in the
00:29:16.880
first week. Analysis of more than a decade of crime statistics has suggested fewer thefts,
00:29:21.420
assaults, and shoplifting cases are being solved by officers. Police Scotland says that it's coping
00:29:26.220
with the additional demand created by the hate crime law. Um, many of the early reports related
00:29:31.800
to tweets made by JK Rowling. Um, and so that's what a lot of these reports are coming in now.
00:29:39.560
And they're being overwhelmed and it's, it's become, you know, they, they just instated this hate
00:29:45.000
crime law and it's already unmanageable, even according to law enforcement in Scotland.
00:29:49.860
And all I have to say about that is good. Fantastic. I mean, that is exactly what needs to happen.
00:29:56.280
And if you live in Scotland, just flood the lines with hate speech complaints,
00:30:01.540
file a hundred hate speech complaints every day, overwhelm the system until it becomes totally
00:30:06.500
unsustainable. Uh, if that's, if that's what they want, then give it to them. And, and anything
00:30:12.420
could be hate speech. Keep in mind, you know, anytime anyone says anything that makes you feel
00:30:16.580
bad, call it in, call it in. Uh, they can't charge you with a false police report because it's not
00:30:22.060
false. If you're reporting it based on how you feel, this is about your truth. It's about your
00:30:26.840
feelings. That's how the law is written. Remember the, the legality or illegality of an act now,
00:30:31.540
or a statement in Scotland is determined by the feelings of the person who hears or witnesses
00:30:37.860
the actor statement. So if you say something that a quote unquote reasonable person could consider
00:30:45.400
to be threatening or abusive, that's the language in the law, then, uh, then it's illegal. You can
00:30:49.520
call it in, you know, and, and, and, uh, on the flip side, if you consider yourself to be reasonable
00:30:54.520
and you feel abused by something that somebody said, call it in, file the report. Now, naturally,
00:31:00.040
of course, uh, you should only do this to leftists who support the law and they should celebrate you
00:31:05.900
doing it because this is what they wanted. And so any, you know, I wouldn't call in any reports
00:31:11.320
on your fellow members of team sanity. However, few of them may exist in Scotland, but, um, Hey,
00:31:17.260
if I lived in Scotland and, uh, anytime I encountered a leftist and they did anything at
00:31:21.840
all to make me sad, call it in right away, report all of them every single time. Um, and again,
00:31:27.140
it's what they want. It's what they want. They should be, they should be happy. They, they,
00:31:29.880
they should, they should celebrate that. They should congratulate you, right? Cause you're
00:31:33.920
taking hate speech seriously. And to be clear, I'm not encouraging anyone to file a false police
00:31:39.120
report. I would never do that. That'd be a serious and unethical, uh, and probably illegal thing for
00:31:44.420
me to do. And so I'm not doing that. I just want to be very clear. I'm not saying, absolutely. I
00:31:48.240
wouldn't condone any false police reports of any kind. Do not do that. Um, I'm not saying anyone
00:31:53.540
should falsely report anything. All I'm saying is that the law now allows you to file a report
00:31:58.180
when someone makes you feel sad, right? When someone makes you, someone makes you feel,
00:32:02.600
you know, you feel abused by what they said. That's what the law allows. And so,
00:32:06.380
and I encourage you to take full advantage of it. Uh, cause hate speech, you know, it's a big
00:32:11.340
problem. It's a big problem in Scotland. And, uh, and they, they want to know all about it. They
00:32:15.300
want, this is what, this is the only thing that they care about now. It's the only thing that they,
00:32:18.720
I mean, this is what they've signed up for with their law, because once you allow people to call in
00:32:22.500
stuff like this and you treat this like a crime, you treat, you know, mean words as a, as an actual
00:32:27.520
criminal act. Well, there's a lot of mean words out there and even more words that aren't mean,
00:32:34.840
but be, could be construed as such. And so the moment you pass this law, what you are saying is
00:32:40.180
that, okay, our entire law enforcement apparatus from henceforth will be solely focused on this
00:32:47.240
because there won't be any other time for anything else. That's what they want. And, uh, and so again,
00:32:53.160
give them, give them what they want. That's what you should do. Uh, the Post Millennial has this
00:32:59.880
report. The parents of school shooter in Michigan, Ethan Crumbly, have been jailed after being convicted
00:33:04.460
of manslaughter. Ethan is serving life in prison for murder after he killed four students at Oxford
00:33:07.900
High School in Michigan in November, 2021. Ethan was 15 at the time. Ethan's mother, Jennifer,
00:33:13.240
and his father, James, uh, 45 and 47, are now both going to prison for manslaughter. Each of
00:33:19.960
Ethan's parents are serving 10 to 15 years for the charges. Uh, this was the sentence passed down
00:33:24.780
yesterday. Here is the judge passing down the sentence. Let's watch. Each of the defendant's
00:33:30.180
gross negligence has caused unimaginable suffering to hundreds of others as a result of what happened
00:33:36.820
that day. Each act or inaction created a ripple effect. Therefore, an out of guidelines sentence is
00:33:45.500
appropriate and proportional. The court uses the useful tool of the legislative guidelines,
00:33:51.600
which embody the principles of proportionality, while also taking into account the nature of the
00:33:57.140
offense and the background of each defendant. I believe that the following sentences would be
00:34:02.500
in the best interest of justice and are reasonable and proportionate to the seriousness of the matter
00:34:08.380
and the circumstances surrounding each defendant. With regard to Jennifer Crumley,
00:34:16.480
it is the sentence of this court, Ms. Crumley, that you serve 10 to 15 years with the Michigan
00:34:21.120
Department of Corrections. You will have credit for 858 days. State costs are $272.00, as crime
00:34:28.560
victims' rights fee of $130.00. Um, you and your agents may not have any contact with the families
00:34:36.580
of Madison Baldwin, Tate Meir, Hannah St. Juliana, and Justin Schilling. Um, I will issue another ruling
00:34:44.680
with regard to contact, um, with your son, the shooter. Excuse me. As to defendant James Crumley,
00:34:54.480
it is the sentence of this court that you serve 10 to 15 years with the Michigan Department of Corrections,
00:35:00.880
that you receive credit for 858 days, that you pay state costs in the matter of, uh, $272.00,
00:35:08.940
that there is a crime victim's rights fee of $130, that you or your agents have no contact with the
00:35:15.700
families of Madison Baldwin, Tate Meir, Hannah St. Juliana. So, uh, 10 to 15 years they're both getting
00:35:22.920
for, uh, their sentence for the crimes. And this is apparently, as she says, an out-of-guideline
00:35:29.820
sentence. So, this is, uh, this is going beyond what the sentencing guidelines would, uh, call for.
00:35:37.140
Um, and she's throwing the book. She's, so she's throwing more than the book at them. Uh, she's,
00:35:42.400
she's giving them as much prison time as she possibly can. Um, and this is the kind of
00:35:49.200
very severe, rigid application of justice that we rarely ever see.
00:35:57.460
Many, many occasions when we would love to see something like this. Um, and we don't.
00:36:04.960
Many, many violent scumbags, uh, chronically violent scumbags who are, you know, commit crimes
00:36:12.640
and then they're released from prison, committed again, released from prison, committed again,
00:36:15.660
and, and, and do horrible things, do horrible things directly to other people. You know, not
00:36:20.300
that we're blaming them for, uh, things that other people have done that they were supposed to
00:36:23.840
prevent or have seen coming, but, but people who do things themselves that don't get this kind of
00:36:31.020
treatment, don't get 10 to 15 years of prison. Um, do, you know, that, that oftentimes the judges
00:36:37.020
will go the other way. They'll, they'll do everything in their power to give the lightest
00:36:40.340
sentence they possibly can. And that's not what's happening here. Um, and you know, we talked about,
00:36:47.960
I, I, I, I've made my point about this case. I think that you, you know, my argument, um, uh,
00:36:53.740
I think that the precedent being set here is incredibly dangerous. Um, and what makes it the
00:37:03.340
most dangerous is how arbitrary it is, how incredibly arbitrary this is because
00:37:11.620
essentially they're going to prison for being bad parents. That that's basically the charge really.
00:37:19.600
I mean, that might not be what it says on the charging documents, but that's, that is the
00:37:22.980
charge that they are bad parents and that if they had been better parents, this would not have happened
00:37:27.100
because nobody is claiming that they were involved in, in, you know, in any way coordinating this,
00:37:34.900
this terrible crime that was committed. No one's claiming that they were, were actively involved
00:37:41.020
in committing it, that they wanted their son to do it, or they told their son to do it,
00:37:44.700
or they planned it with them or anything like that. Now, if any of that was the case,
00:37:47.920
then there's nothing to talk about. Of course, throw them in jail forever, um, at a minimum.
00:37:53.580
But in this case, no one is claiming that. I think it's, it's widely agreed that they,
00:38:00.200
you know, they didn't, they didn't want their son to go shoot up a school.
00:38:03.000
But the problem is that as parents, they were so negligent and so stupid and so absent sort of,
00:38:12.360
uh, at least from kind of morally absent as parents that it allowed this to happen.
00:38:18.660
And they were reckless as parents as well. And all of that is true.
00:38:23.000
So I'm not defending their parenting skills at all. You know, if you want to claim that they're
00:38:33.280
really bad parents, a hundred percent agree. If you want to say that this wouldn't have happened
00:38:39.720
if they were better parents, again, that's pronounced, we can't really, that's a hypothetical.
00:38:46.280
We can't know for sure. It's possible that you could have really good parents who do everything
00:38:51.260
they can. And yet their kid still ends up being a murderous scumbag. It's very unlikely,
00:38:56.360
but we can't say it's impossible because human beings are their own, you know, are, are, uh,
00:39:02.020
have their own minds and they can make their own decisions. And sometimes as a parent, no matter what
00:39:07.320
you do, your, your child will end up making really, really horrible decisions that can happen. But
00:39:12.340
most likely if you do your job as a parent, um, or if you even get close to doing your job,
00:39:19.540
if you even just try, you put a little bit of an effort in as a parent, your kid will not end up
00:39:24.020
being a school shooter. Okay. Like at least it won't get that bad. So all that is, all that is
00:39:29.720
true. Uh, the issue of course, is that that is also true of almost every violent criminal in the
00:39:39.320
country. Like almost every violent criminal in the country, almost every violent felon in a prison
00:39:45.180
right now, almost every violent felon who is not in a prison, but should be right now. All of them
00:39:49.600
have parents who almost all of them have parents negligent, irresponsible, uh, totally failed,
00:40:00.320
either completely physically absent or at least morally absent or a combination of the two.
00:40:06.300
A lot of these violent criminals, it's, it is a combination because they've got fathers who,
00:40:09.940
uh, abandoned them from the start. And they've got mothers who just were not interested in raising
00:40:14.080
their kids at all. And, and, you know, if, if any of that had been different, father stays home,
00:40:21.500
the mother puts a little bit of effort into actually being a mother, then these kids would
00:40:25.280
not end up being violent criminals. So the same logic applies.
00:40:31.480
Okay. You take any, just any random, uh, what's the most, the most recent, uh, case of, of someone
00:40:38.420
robbing a liquor store and shooting, you know, it's like a violent crime committed in the, in the
00:40:43.280
process of, you know, a murder committed in the process of a, of a robbery. Let's say someone's
00:40:48.100
knocking over a liquor store, shoots the clerk, a gas station, whatever. And someone's get mugs on a,
00:40:52.360
mugged on a street corner and shot. These kinds of things happen all the time.
00:40:56.980
And you just take the most recent case of that. It probably happened somewhere in the country
00:41:00.440
yesterday. And whoever it was who committed that crime without even knowing, we're speaking totally
00:41:06.380
in hypotheticals now, but whoever that person is, we know for almost certain fact that they have a
00:41:13.080
father who was not at home and they have a mother who's just terrible. Mother's probably on drugs,
00:41:18.480
is not interested in the kid, not doing anything to raise the kid.
00:41:23.580
Are those parents going to be charged with a crime? They won't. They never are.
00:41:27.360
So we selected these parents in particular. These are the only ones we have held. This is a legal
00:41:35.540
standard that we've created and held only these parents to it. And so that is the real dangerous
00:41:48.380
precedent being set. It's not even so much that we, that we, we might one day live in a country now
00:41:54.940
where, uh, anytime someone commits a violent crime, their parents automatically end up going to
00:42:00.900
prison too. Yeah. Uh, that would be bad if that were to happen, but that's not going to happen.
00:42:08.320
What's more likely is that now that this can of worms has been opened, right? Um, well now,
00:42:16.120
no, it's not that it's going to be consistently happened to every parent,
00:42:19.280
but now this gives the judicial system a tool that they can decide when they want to use it.
00:42:25.960
Now they have that option. And if they decide for whatever reason that in this particular case,
00:42:31.040
that these are the kinds of parents they would like to put in prison too, then they can.
00:42:36.800
And by the way, when we say kinds of parents, they want to put in prison and kinds of parents,
00:42:40.280
they don't like, let's not beat around the bush. Part, part of the story here is that these parents
00:42:45.300
are white. That's just a fact. A lot of these, a lot of these violent criminals with really terrible
00:42:50.480
parents and are, you know, in our cities across the country have black parents. It's just, you're,
00:42:55.700
you're not going to see that standard held in that case. And I think it's, it's almost certainly the
00:43:01.700
case. That's not almost certainly the case. We know it's the case that you take Ethan Crumbly.
00:43:07.620
What did he do? He shot and killed four people, terrible crime. Uh, he should be executed for it,
00:43:12.160
but you take that, you, you, you make him Ethan Crumbly, but he's black. And maybe rather than
00:43:18.320
committing that mass shooting, uh, on a, on a, uh, in a school, he commits it on a street corner.
00:43:26.060
There's just a 0% chance that the legal system goes after his parents too. And we know that there's
00:43:32.720
a 0% chance that the legal system goes after his parents because there have been thousands of Ethan
00:43:38.360
Crumbly's doing things like that in our cities. And the legal system has never gone after any of
00:43:43.320
their parents, not even once. And so this is a, that, that is, that's the precedent being said.
00:43:52.620
And so it's, you know, I see a lot of very foolish people applauding this.
00:43:58.660
That's a good thing. We're finally holding parents accountable. You think that's actually what's
00:44:04.420
happening? No, we're not holding parents accountable. We're holding these parents in
00:44:09.040
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Hillsdale.edu slash Walsh. So a few comments pointing to what they see as inconsistencies in my pro-life
00:45:23.320
position. First one says, so your argument is, if a three-month pregnancy is endangering the life of
00:45:28.380
the mother, it's better to let the mother die, thereby also killing the unborn baby, than aborting
00:45:33.020
the baby to save the mother's life. Two deaths is better than one, so you can feel morally superior.
00:45:41.380
Matt, you just spent a big chunk of your show arguing that you have the right to defend yourself.
00:45:45.740
Why shouldn't you be able to kill a fetus that threatens your life?
00:45:48.500
And finally, in this episode, you make the case against capital punishment. You'll reply,
00:45:53.840
well, these people lost their right to life when they committed whatever crime.
00:45:57.360
But as you argue here, who are you to make that call? Sanctity of human life is absolute,
00:46:01.520
or it isn't. Which is it? All right, well, these are all similar sorts of arguments and objections,
00:46:07.840
so let me answer the last question, which I think answers all of them. Sanctity of life is absolute.
00:46:14.420
Yes, life is sacred. And when I say it's absolute, I mean in the sense that it's inherent.
00:46:22.340
It's given to us by God. Human life itself is given to us by God. It's created by God,
00:46:27.080
and so therefore it is, by definition, sacred. So that is true. However, the right to life
00:46:36.080
is not absolute. You do not have the absolute right to continue living no matter what you do.
00:46:43.060
You don't have any absolute rights. You can lose any of your rights. Of course you can.
00:46:50.480
The simple fact of putting you in prison already removes most of your rights.
00:46:57.380
Most of your rights are out the window when you're in prison.
00:47:01.720
Right? Right against, you know, the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. Well,
00:47:07.060
that doesn't mean, that doesn't apply in prison. They can search you anytime they want. You have no
00:47:11.640
property. You have no privacy. You really, you don't have free speech. You don't have the right
00:47:15.800
to assembly. You know, you don't have, most of your rights go out the window. Along with just your
00:47:21.520
basic right to be free and kind of go where you want and have freedom of movement. Like all of that
00:47:27.220
goes out the window. And so the very fact that we have prisons, for example, already tells us that
00:47:32.720
that at least many of our rights are, uh, can be lost. And if none of them could be lost, then we
00:47:39.380
couldn't have prisons. Uh, we couldn't have any kind of justice system at all. And then you would
00:47:43.040
have, of course, total anarchy. And then the result of anarchy is that then your rights are lost by
00:47:48.600
another means. Um, so the same goes for the right to life. Like, of course you can lose your right to
00:47:56.720
life. That's not absolute. So, and there are obvious examples of this that I think, I think
00:48:02.660
we would all agree with. If somebody comes into my house and points a gun at my head and I, I shoot
00:48:10.920
them to defend myself or defend my family and my children. Well, I think everyone who is not a
00:48:18.580
lunatic would agree that I have the right to do that. Of course I do. Um, and I have not deprived them
00:48:24.320
of their rights in doing so. They didn't have the right to come into my house. They didn't have the
00:48:28.420
right to point a gun at me. They didn't have a right to threaten my children. I have a right to
00:48:32.100
preserve my own life, which means in that case, because of their choices, I can take their life.
00:48:38.200
So that person by doing that has sacrificed, has forfeited his own right to live. And that's how
00:48:45.880
rights can be lost is if you choose by your actions to forfeit them. Now let's extend this
00:48:55.020
logic to unborn children. Well, we've already established that, that, that human life, if,
00:49:00.380
if anyone's life is sacred, then everyone's life is sacred.
00:49:05.220
Because if, if anyone's life is sacred, it means that human life is inherently sacred
00:49:08.540
because we're all created by God. And it's not like there are some of us created by God and some who
00:49:13.680
aren't like we all are. We all come from the same place in that sense. So, um, human life is sacred
00:49:20.260
for everyone. And if it's sacred for everyone, then it's sacred for unborn children as well.
00:49:25.880
And if we agree that the right to life is not absolute, it can be lost. And I think we all,
00:49:31.240
again, we all must agree on that. Unless you really think that you have, if someone comes in
00:49:35.380
your house and points a gun at your head, you have no right to shoot them. If you're not that extreme,
00:49:39.720
then you, then you would agree that, that the right to life can be lost. And it's just,
00:49:43.180
then it's just a question of, of how can it be lost? And my sort of theory here is that
00:49:49.520
it can only be lost by the actions that you can only choose. It's not that it's lost. Like you're
00:49:58.120
walking along one day, Oh, I've lost my right to life. Where did it go? You've, you've chosen to
00:50:02.660
forfeit it. You've, you've, you, the minute you, you know, you have that gun in your pocket and you
00:50:06.340
go into some break into somebody's house, meaning them harm, whether you are saying it to yourself in
00:50:10.740
your head or not, you have still chosen, okay, I'm, I'm going to put my right to life on hold right
00:50:15.060
now. I'm gonna put that off to the side because I'd rather do this instead. So that's my point
00:50:21.960
that you can, through your actions, you can lose it. But unborn children, what action have they
00:50:29.360
engaged in to lose their right to life? The action of what being conceived, that's not a choice that
00:50:37.500
they made. The unborn child didn't choose to be conceived. An unborn child is, is the only place
00:50:46.760
he can be doing the only thing he can be doing. Um, so that does not, it cannot apply to unborn
00:50:57.860
children. They can't lose the right because they can't choose to, they can't do anything to forfeit
00:51:01.740
that inherent or that, uh, that, that, although not absolute, still fundamental right.
00:51:06.780
So, you know, the question goes back to you, like how, what has an unborn child done to lose their
00:51:17.620
right to life? What have they done to deserve being killed? Maybe that's a, that's how I would
00:51:21.540
like to flip it around and ask you that. What have they done to deserve this? When the unborn child is
00:51:28.700
being ripped limb from limb and thrown into a dumpster like trash, what did they do to deserve that?
00:51:33.980
Okay. Don't tell me about anything else and things happening out in the world and all this.
00:51:40.320
No, no, no. That, what did they do? What did the child do?
00:51:46.360
And if your answer is, well, they didn't do anything to deserve it. Well, then, then I suppose my answer
00:51:51.180
is what, like you shouldn't, you should not commit an act of violence on someone. If you admit from the
00:51:57.680
start that they didn't do anything to deserve it. That is the definition of, of unjust. Is it
00:52:03.960
not? I mean, justice is to give to everyone what they deserve. You know, justice is, is to put
00:52:12.120
everything in its rightful place. Somebody commits a crime, the rightful place is prison. That's
00:52:17.180
justice. Someone does something bad, what they deserve is a punishment. You give it to them. That's
00:52:21.900
justice. Somebody doesn't commit a crime and you punish them for a crime they didn't commit.
00:52:26.640
That's not justice because they didn't deserve that. And so it would seem to me that, but that,
00:52:31.400
by definition, uh, killing an unborn child is, is always an act of injustice because they could
00:52:38.260
not have possibly done anything to deserve it. The, the murderer being executed absolutely did
00:52:45.340
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cancellation. Well, it's not every day that you're watching a funeral and out of nowhere, someone manages
00:53:48.760
to create a spectacle that's completely unrelated to the person who just died. Uh, you know, outside
00:53:53.440
of films like Zoolander, it's pretty uncommon, but it does happen from time to time in the real world.
00:53:58.680
And it's always kind of hard to watch what it does. You might remember that Barack Obama made, uh, the
00:54:02.920
late John Lewis and also ran at his own funeral a few years ago when he delivered a eulogy that ended
00:54:08.140
up being a political speech about police racism or something. It was pretty tacky. And at the time it
00:54:13.220
seemed hard to top, but last weekend for the first time in a while, we had a real contender, uh, for
00:54:18.380
the title of tackiest moment at a funeral. And this time it was in the world of entertainment instead
00:54:22.600
of politics. At the memorial service of her grandfather, the 15 year old daughter of Jennifer
00:54:27.160
Garner and Ben Affleck, for some reason decided to mark the occasion by publicly coming out as
00:54:31.660
transgender. Instead of using the name, uh, Serafina Rose, this girl made it clear that she will
00:54:37.740
henceforth use the more ambiguous name of Finn. And apparently she'll now be using they them
00:54:41.860
pronouns as well. So here's the first time that Finn Affleck announced her new identity
00:54:46.320
complete with a shaved head. Watch. Hello, my name is Finn Affleck. I'm reading verse eight
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Proverbs chapter 16, verse eight. Better is a little with righteousness than large income
00:54:57.840
with injustice. Okay. The proverb about importance of righteousness is, you know, maybe a little
00:55:05.780
out of place here. Appearing at the funeral of your grandfather and generating a bunch of
00:55:09.760
tabloid articles about your alleged gender identity can be described as a lot of things,
00:55:14.360
uh, but probably not righteous being one of them. Now, of course the point here isn't to be
00:55:18.760
critical of this girl or what she said at the funeral. She's only 15. She doesn't know what
00:55:23.000
she's doing. Uh, this is where parents are supposed to step in and say, you know, it's not really the
00:55:27.300
time for this. Uh, you know, you don't need to date debut your new name at the grandfather's
00:55:31.700
funeral. She's confused. And she is herself, obviously another victim of the gender ideology
00:55:36.600
cult. Uh, and so deserves a lot of sympathy for that reason. And certainly has it for me.
00:55:41.780
The real story here is that Ben Affleck by some great scientific coincidence as being reported now
00:55:47.640
by many media articles now somehow has a non-binary kid in addition to a non-binary step kid. And of
00:55:55.800
course, non-binary being in scare quotes on both occasions. The Daily Mail reports that Ben Affleck's
00:56:00.380
current wife, Jennifer Lopez also has a 16 year old daughter named M who uses gender neutral
00:56:05.400
pronouns and has become close with Finn as a step-sibling. So we have two gender non-conforming
00:56:11.260
kids in the same family. What are the odds of that? As it happens, there's not a lot of data on this
00:56:17.780
because the categories are all completely made up obviously. But according to UCLA, something like
00:56:22.540
1.4% of youth between the ages of 13 and 17 now identify as transgender or non-binary. That's
00:56:28.760
approximately a, you know, I don't know, a zillion percent increase from a decade ago,
00:56:33.240
mathematically when nobody was transgender or non-binary, especially in that age group.
00:56:37.760
Also, according to UCLA, something like one third of transgender identifying people are
00:56:41.020
non-binary. So putting two and two together and fudging the numbers a bit, the odds of having a
00:56:45.680
child who identifies as non-binary is probably something like 0.5%. Again, these numbers are
00:56:51.020
almost certainly wrong because just like everything else in the gender space, there are no standards.
00:56:55.100
But for the sake of argument, we'll pretend the numbers are real for a second. And if the odds of
00:56:58.760
having one non-binary teenager are 0.5%, then the odds of independently having two non-binary teenagers
00:57:05.880
are very, very low. I mean, it's something like 0.002% or one in 40,000. If we're assuming that
00:57:14.920
transgenderism is a naturally occurring phenomenon, which it isn't, but that's what trans activists
00:57:20.560
demand, then Ben Affleck's situation is quite a statistical coincidence. But of course, again,
00:57:26.240
it's not a coincidence. Finn was obviously influenced by her gender non-conforming relative M. And of
00:57:33.680
course, both of them were influenced by the lifestyles of their celebrity parents. This is
00:57:37.720
a common phenomenon, which is why a huge number of Hollywood celebrities have children who identify
00:57:42.500
as trans or non-binary. So here's a very much non-exhaustive list of some celebrities who have
00:57:48.020
or previously had trans slash non-binary slash gender non-conforming kids, according to various
00:57:53.140
websites to track this kind of thing. There's Cher, Charlize Theron, Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union,
00:57:59.480
Jamie Lee Curtis, Cynthia Nixon, Sigourney Weaver, Marlon Wayans, Dean McDermott, Annette Bening and
00:58:05.200
Warren Beatty, Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Cindy Barshop, Adele, Gwen Stefani, Naomi Watts,
00:58:13.000
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Now this is a striking list and it reveals a couple of things. First of all,
00:58:17.900
Hollywood celebrities often treat their kids like fashion accessories. If it's popular to have a trans
00:58:22.740
kid, then they all need to go out and get themselves a trans kid. And then they go on
00:58:26.640
television and talk about their children to advance their own public profiles as if that's
00:58:30.480
not an incredibly creepy thing to do. Now it's not true of all these celebrities, to be fair. They
00:58:34.000
haven't all done that, but it's pretty common. A couple of years ago, for example, Dwayne Wade went
00:58:37.520
on pretty much every television show in existence from Ellen to Good Morning America to talk about how
00:58:41.280
proud he was that his child had come out as trans. Like the child, quote unquote, came out as trans and
00:58:47.240
then immediately Dwayne Wade is on the interview circuit telling everyone in the world about it.
00:58:52.740
Which, by the way, even if you think that it's possible for a kid to be trans, which it isn't,
00:59:00.680
but even if you're in the camp where you think that that's a real thing, you should still understand
00:59:04.560
that there's no good reason for a parent to go and tell the entire world about it constantly.
00:59:13.400
Dwayne Wade told Robin Roberts at the time, quote, when I say we're learning from our 12-year-old,
00:59:18.040
we're literally learning from our child. He also said that he knew that his child was trans when he
00:59:23.240
was three years old. This is, in fact, the complete inversion of how parenting is supposed to work.
00:59:28.040
Obviously, parents are not supposed to learn from their three-year-old children. Like, I've never
00:59:33.060
learned anything from a three-year-old child. We've had several three-year-old children in the house
00:59:41.200
at various times, and I don't think they've ever taught me anything. But in Hollywood, you know,
00:59:47.020
it's celebrated. Of course, the fact that transgenderism is so much more common in Hollywood,
00:59:50.520
the pilot population, proves that it's a social trend and not a naturally occurring phenomenon.
00:59:56.340
When you gather a bunch of narcissists together, which is what Hollywood is,
00:59:59.560
then they produce children who desperately seek ways to seem different and unique and special.
01:00:05.180
Jennifer Lopez, for example, is notoriously one of the most narcissistic people in Hollywood.
01:00:09.040
I could show you about a million clips here, but I'll settle on this one,
01:00:12.500
where she laments the fact that she's not a more widely respected actress. Watch.
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Some people are talented actors from the time they were very young,
01:00:21.580
and I was a good actress always. I can say that now to myself.
01:00:27.220
Many thought you should have been nominated for an Oscar. First of all, did you feel snubbed?
01:00:31.400
I was sad. I was sad. I was a little sad because there was a lot of buildup to it.
01:00:36.160
There was a lot of like, she's going to get nominated for an Oscar. It's going to happen.
01:00:40.540
If she doesn't, you're crazy. And I'm reading all the articles and I'm going,
01:00:44.520
oh my God, could this happen? And then it didn't. I was like, ouch.
01:00:51.100
Reading all the articles about herself, somehow that is not surprising.
01:00:56.160
Now, there's probably not a single person on this planet who can confidently say they've seen a
01:00:59.320
Jennifer Lopez movie and been truly amazed at her natural acting talent. First of all,
01:01:05.540
the number of people who've seen a Jennifer Lopez movie is obviously a very tiny subset of the
01:01:09.280
population. And then within that subset, it can't be that many people who didn't think to themselves,
01:01:14.320
why am I watching this terrible Lifetime movie? But to the extent that these people exist,
01:01:19.000
they're apparently all friends of Jennifer Lopez and they're convinced that she deserves an Oscar.
01:01:23.740
And they've convinced her of this fact as well. Now, not to dwell too much on Jennifer Lopez,
01:01:27.240
but she does this constantly. It's actually difficult to Google Jennifer Lopez and not
01:01:31.880
be reminded of how self-absorbed she is. For example, the Amazon description for her documentary
01:01:36.120
film, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, reads, quote, directed by Jason Berg, The Greatest Love
01:01:41.180
Story Never Told follows Jennifer Lopez as she attempts her most daring project yet,
01:01:45.780
independently producing a new album and cinematic original that explores her 20-year journey to
01:01:51.200
self-love. Her 20-year journey of being obsessed with herself.
01:01:57.240
We're supposed to believe it's an accident that someone this delusional, this committed to self-love
01:02:01.520
could possibly produce delusional children who want to express their self-love at someone else's
01:02:08.020
funeral. But it's not an accident. Transgenderism is a byproduct of extreme narcissism and disordered
01:02:14.660
thinking. Parents who are extreme narcissists will inevitably produce transgender children at a rate
01:02:21.540
that is impossible to explain away as random statistical variation. And that's precisely
01:02:26.680
what we're seeing now. And it is why celebrity parents who push their children into the cult of
01:02:32.060
transgenderism to the point of announcing it at a memorial service for their grandfather
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are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.